REVIEW: SUN OF SILVER, MOON OF GOLD by MAUREEN PETERS
Plain, forthright and stubborn, Flora Scott knows that her chances of matrimony are slim and she has long resigned herself to being a spinster. But when her Uncle Frank, who has settled in America, sends her a letter asking her to join him in the New World, where he has become a very wealthy man, Flora finds herself leaving her mother, her family, her home and all that is familiar to her, for the New World where nothing is as it seems.
In America, Flora had hoped to find a society that isn’t constrained by outdated and old fashioned norms and strict social conventions. But Flora soon finds out that her new neighbors are just as prejudiced and as narrow-minded as the people she left behind in England.
Her uncle Frank loses no time in introducing her to eligible bachelors and is quick to point out that if she wishes to be married, she will have to learn how to be ladylike and to always does as she’s told. But little does Frank Scott know that Flora is determined not to let him squash her spirit!
Flora cannot resist treading her own path and she soon goes against her uncle’s warnings and befriends Tessa Franklin. A young woman who had been kidnapped by the Indians as a child, Tessa had been returned to her brother Charles and to the town she used to call home – only to be ostracized and ignored by her fellow townsmen who regard her with plenty of scorn.
Flora soon finds herself drawn to the young girl’s plight and to her desperate desire to go back home to the Indians and to the man she loves above everything else in the world. But Flora soon finds herself caught up in a web of greed, power, superciliousness and prejudice, and she realizes that the only man who can help her is the one man whom she loves, but who is betrothed to another: Brent O’Brien, a man who has made it clear that he desires her, but who is sworn to marry a woman who is not about to give him up.
Maureen Peters writes with such style, flair and gusto about the past that readers just cannot resist turning the pages of her enchanting historical novels. Sun of Silver, Moon of Gold is a terrific tale of secrets, passion, intrigue and prejudice written by a terrific storyteller readers all around the world adore!
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Genre: historical ISBN: 978-0709084440 Page Count: 224 Pages Price: $ £18.99 Reviewer: Julie Bonello |
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